App Info : Facebook adds in-app SMS, makes design changes in Android app update

Facebook is hitting its mobile stride with
several new feature announcements today. In
addition to offering photo syncing for Android
devices, the social network is rolling out an
additional update to both the Android Facebook app and Android Facebook Messenger app.

Among the updates included is an in-app
texting feature. For Android smartphone owners, the Facebook Messenger app now
has the option to text friends directly from within app itself. It’s the latest in a recent line of steps that Facebook has taken to house all forms of communication under its own roof. Now on Facebook Messenger, users can send or receive SMS messages, native Facebook messages, and even emails using
the @facebook.com addresses that were allocated to every user months ago.

It’s no secret that Facebook has been trying hard to transform it’s platform into the destination for communication; users already spend hours upon hours doing using it for these means as is. Of course the motivation for Facebook here is that the longer users spend on the site, the higher the chances that Facebook has to earn advertising revenue from its users. Of course, migrating all things to mobile is priority number one over at Facebook, so this new implementation makes all too much sense.

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